He must have been the happiest or the luckiest man alive. As a boy he felt trapped in working-class Blackpool, the Coney Island of England, and so won a scholarship to Cambridge. He loved jazz and ...

LONDON (AP) _ Alistair Cooke, the broadcaster who epitomized highbrow television as host of ``Masterpiece Theatre'' and whose ``Letter from America'' was a radio fixture in Britain for 58 years, has ...

Alistair Cooke, the ultra-civilized, silver-haired British broadcaster best known to American audiences as the host of "Masterpiece Theatre," died Tuesday at his home in New York. He had heart disease ...